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You plan to buy a home for 203 thousand dollars. The bank you want to finance the loan with suggests a 20-year mortgage at 6% APR. What would be the monthly mortgage payment? Use semiannual compounding, and provide the answer in dollars
Loan amount = $203,000
Interest rate(APR) = 6% semi-annual compounding
Calculating the APR monthly compounding from semi-annual compounding using EAR formula:-
where, r1 = Interest rate monthly compounding
m1 = no of times compounding in a year = 12
r2 = Interest rate Semi-annual compounding = 6%
m2 = no of times compounding in a year = 2
taking 12-root on both sides,
r1 = 5.92632%
- Interest rate(APR) monthly compounding is 5.92632%
Now, calculating the Monthly Mortgage Payment:-
Where, P = Loan Amount = $203,000
r = Periodic Interest rate = 5.92632%/12 = 0.49386%
n= no of periods = 20 years*12 = 240
Monthly payment = $1445.74
So, he monthly mortgage payment is $1445.74
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